Musici de Praga

The chamber orchestra Musici de Praga
was founded in 1966 by the violist Jaroslav Stepnicka
and nowadays belongs to the leading czech chamber orchestras.Musici de Praga interprets classical music of all styles
and its main feature is playing without a conductor.

This orchestra has visited the most European countries and has
performed its concert programs in a number of international music
festivals.
Besides these activitis, Musici de Praga is also working
on the joint projects with Radio and TV broadcasting companies
and CD producers in the Czech Republic and abroad, as well. The
CD "Baroque concerts in Prague", made
in France, recieves in Paris very prestigious prize "Grand
Prix de'l Academie du Disque Francaise" in the year
1989 under support of M. Jacques Chirac.

At the present time Mr. Jan Pellant is the
artistic leader and concert Master, who had many places of work
all around the world: Japan, Portugal, South Africa in the same
function as he is working now.
Repertoire and program of the Musici de Praga is formed
nearly from all the classical composers of 18th and 19th century
(largely J. Myslivecek, W. A. Mozart, J. Haydn and of course
composers of 20th century, i. e. A. Dvorak, L. Janacek, P. I.
Cajkovsky and many others).